What you tend you grow. As I was watering this afternoon I looked at a conifer in the corner of the yard. It was not a plant I had purchased or even one that I would have put in my garden but alas it came into my possession so I planted it and basically left it to fend for itself.

My Mock Orange however I love and I have nurtured it through icy winters and blazing summers, watching it grow from a single stem to a small shrub almost to my waist. Its new growth, light green and soft, shows my time and attention.

I looked over at the dried and withered conifer and realised that it could also look as healthy as my Mock Orange if I had tended it more. My spiritual life is the same. What I tend I grow. I can leave my spiritual progress to fend for itself and it will look like my conifer, sad and brown or I can do all I can to maintain its chance for maximum growth.

The Word of God is my water, prayer my fertilizer and my worship the wind. It is summer now I need all the water I can get! God blessAnnie